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Contents:

• FED-UP OTTAWA RINTS USE PORNOGRAPHIC METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS TO DISPT FREEDOM CONVOY
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"
• HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• GAY METAL SONG AIMS TO SUBVERT CANADIAN TCK BLOCKA
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

FED-UP OTTAWA RINTS USE PORNOGRAPHIC METAL SONG ABOUT GAY COWBOYS TO DISPT FREEDOM CONVOY

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era.

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So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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As both voutly straight edge and proudly homosexual, their substance-ee stance ma them stand out a time when bars, clubs and other toxitg spac prised the few safe havens for LGBTQ people.

” Although only a actn of the band’s succs Europe translated to the Uned Stat, “Take Your Mama” remas a staple gay bars across the untry. Butler later told The New York Tim that “Bld” relled “growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn.

THE TOP 75 MOST INIC GAY ANTHEMS DERVG OF THE TLE OF BEG CALLED THE "GAY NATNAL ANTHEM"

The tr would later make headl after the 2014 Grammy Awards, where their landmark performance of the song would soundtrack a mass weddg between 33 gay and straight upl. ” Sgg “No fay is safe when I sashay, ” he slks to a nference room and gyrat his hips for a room full of sus – a sly riposte to the legns of homophob who weaponize their fears agast LGBTQ people, om wh board rooms, Congrs, or out on the streets.

HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!

Organizers ed the song after listeng to the tckers Zello channel to intify the Freedom Convoy’s next mov and fdg homophobic, bigoted and hateful language. Simply a sensible choice for the Gay Natnal Anthem — 's also a song has been heard at more Pris than almost every other song on this list.

LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- 's also about the artists who weren't aaid to be themselv eras when dog so…. But 1973, a sger and actor named Bce Wayne Campbell beme what is believed to be the first openly gay rock mician signed to a major label when he buted as the outrageoly flashy Jobriath. Remarkably, another out gay man, Gary Floyd, also onted another of At’s first-rank punk bands, the Dicks, who would go on to be vered by the lik of The Butthole Surfers, J Lizard and Mudhoney.

” Durg the first half of the 1980s, many artists found mercial succs wh songs and vios that openly picted or referenced queer life, particularly gay nightlife — as seen work of Frankie Go to Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell and others. But was also a smash h for a straight artist enjoyg the kd of succs gay artists don't receive nearly as are great, but 's easy to look at the charts and fet that there are actual LGBT folks sgg gay anthems. Scissor Sisters - “Let's Have A Kiki” While the Scissor Sisters have had a number of dance hs whose mpy style was adored by gay dienc, "Let’s Have A Kiki" solidified them as song was released jt time to be played at every pri event of 2012.

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

Pet Shop Boys - “New York Cy Boy” The Pet Shop Boys are still loved by the gay muny after all the years — even though only one of the two members is openly the duo has had que a few songs that are perceived to be about gay ncerns (fallg love wh men, the AIDS crisis, etc. 1 dance h 1999, beg an anthem for gay clubs around the tongue--cheek vio featur a boy leavg his hometown and g to New York, where he enunters dancg sailors and spends time at the legendary Stud 54.

Lambert, openly lbian sce before her fame, rose to promence after wrg the chos on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' gay marriage anthem, "Same Love. The duo played the same game as the Pet Shop Boys for some time, alludg to their sexualy but not actually statg (sger Andy Bell me out two years before "Rpect" was released) all the while, their lyrics based on passn and love ronated powerfully wh and beyond their large gay fan base. S., "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"” was Culture Club's first big h — the first of song was wrten by now openly gay Boy Gee, who has remaed an in throughout his life.

GAY METAL SONG AIMS TO SUBVERT CANADIAN TCK BLOCKA

Tom Robson Band - “Glad To Be Gay” It's not be surprisg that Tom Robson, the lead sger of the group that bears his name, was an out and proud gay man.

Each of the characters portrayed the group — the p, the Native Amerin, the sailor, the nstctn worker, the wboy and the biker — were all created to reprent figur that were often seen gay fantasi.

Allen ma his mark on history as a songwrer, penng massive hs for the lik of Olivia Newton-John, Dty Sprgfield and Carly Simon, among many the group Pablo Cise actually sred a chartg h wh "I Go To R, " is Alle's take that is still alive and kickg the gay world. The two performed the song together for the first time  1985 at a Live Aid ncert, and was officially re-released as a sgle 1991, beg a chart-topper both only was this event a jog of two of the biggt gay mil stars the world (now legends), but money om sal of the sgle also went to var AIDS and children's-related chari.

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

"I Love The Nightlife" was an ternatnal h, makg Bridg a dis star, even though the majory of her mic was R&B and she didn't officially e out until a later terview popular gay magaze the Advote, the song was featured  the movie The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, which has been a favore the gay muny sce s release. All the members of Bronski Beat were openly gay men, and much of their mic foced on siarly powerful many of the acts, they aren't the hoehold nam they should be today.

” Though, today, you’ll hear the track at everythg om a school dance to a 50th anniversary party, has also been adopted by the gay muny as one of s unofficial anthems. The tl were self-explanatory: “Fire Island” (the East Coast’s gay summer retreat); “San Francis (You’ve Got Me)” (the Wt ast’s premier gay statn); “Village People” (a look at the habants of New York Cy’s largely gay Greenwich Village); and “In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star), ” the promise of artistic acplishment the word’s entertament pal. Only Willis and Rose participated on the “Village People” LP–wh Rose roly creded as “Felipe ‘Indian From the Anvil’“ (the Anvil was a gay NYC sex club).

The gay msagg their songs, the gay fantasy stripper-stum, the gay dancg and fx macho posturg seemed to go over the heads of the dience–or they jt didn’t re. “Key Wt” (a gay rort statn), “Jt a Gigolo, ” “I Am What I Am” (a gay claratn), and “Sodom and Gomorrah” reached their re dience–but the sgle “Macho Man” reached further. An energetic chant song whose lyrics extoled the male form, exercise and gym culture, “Macho Man” was heard by straight dienc as ls gay and more sports/athletics/ol-du fun mic.